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Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.105

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.105
Current Location New York, Brooklyn Museum
Comments on Inventory Bequest of Theodora Wilbour from the collection of her father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance Details Container marked ‘LA’ and, in red, two illegible letters. Elephantine Island, in all likelihood.
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery find or purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) (not relevant)
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type papyrus
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Approximately 40 fragments, most of which are inscribed in Demotic; 4 fragments are written in Late Period Hieratic. Oct. 1949: Aramaic fragments removed from this group, opened and located with 47.218.152 and 47.218.150. Of the material originally catalogued under 47.218.105, there remains a group of small Hieratic fragments now in a box.
Mounting (unknown)
Comments on Object Largest Fragment: 1 × 2 3/8 in. (2.5 × 6 cm) Small Box of Fragments: 1 3/4 x 4 1/16 x 4 1/16 in. (4.5 x 10.3 x 10.3 cm)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) parallel (recto)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The Hieratic fragments are too small to afford more than the reading of a sign or two.
Script, Primary Hieratic
Language, Primary Middle Egyptian

 

Text Content

Modern Title papyrus fragments of unclear content
Ancient Archives (Uncertain)
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown)
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Summary of Content Unclear content due to the fragmentary condition.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Polytheism (Egyptian)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Late Period (26th dynasty - 31st dynasty) -664 BCE -525 BCE Late Period, probably Saite Period (paleographical dating);

 

Pictures

CUR.47.218.105-1_R_001
Reserved Copyright
CUR.47.218.105-1_V_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 318194
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 318194 (= Pap. New York, Brooklyn Museum 47.218.105), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Verena Lepper; Daniela C. Härtel.